Crime Is Getting Worse: Violent Crime In America Increased By 15 Percent Last Year

If your neighborhood is not as safe as it used to be, then you have something in common with the rest of the country. All over America, crime is on the rise. According to a government survey that was just released, violent crime in the United States increased by 15 percent last year, and property crime was up by 12 percent. If violent crime keeps increasing at this rate, it will approximately double in just six years. But as I wrote about the other day, when the next major economic downturn strikes it will probably greatly accelerate the growth of the crime rate in this country. Desperate people do desperate things, and as you will read about below, there are people out there that are already stealing entire truckloads of food. In the future, when people are extremely hungry or crazy for their next drug hit, they won’t think twice about invading your home or pulling you out of your vehicle. The rise in crime that we are witnessing right now is just the beginning. It is going to get a lot worse than this.

Whenever I do this type of an article, inevitably someone leaves a comment insisting that I am lying because crime rates are going down.

Well, that used to be true. It is no longer accurate.

As an ABC News article that was just released explains, the crime victimization survey shows that violent crime in America has now increased for two years in a row…

The violent crime rate went up 15 percent last year, and the property crime rate rose 12 percent, the government said Thursday, signs that the nation may be seeing the last of the substantial declines in crime of the past two decades.

Last year marked the second year in a row for increases in the crime victimization survey, a report that is based on household interviews.

Things have gotten so bad in Chicago that a 14-year-old girl was sexually assaulted as she was walking to a bus stop this week and it barely made a blip on the news.

But we have come to expect this kind of thing in crime-infested cities such as Chicago. We don’t expect it to happen in “quiet communities” such as Augusta, Georgia…

“When we first moved out here three and a half years ago, my wife and I, it was a quiet community, it was a deal that we felt we couldn’t pass up on,” Don McIntee says.

McIntee lives in the Butler Creek Mobile Home Community, but he’s trying to change that. He recently put his home up for sale because he says the crime in his neighborhood is too much to deal with.

“I want to live in a place that I feel is secure and safe for my wife because I’m out of town a lot,” he says.

And it seems like criminals are becoming more brutal than ever. For example, one thug actually put his gun into the mouth of a 92-year-old World War II veteran in Fresno, California and threatened to kill him during one recent home invasion…

“I was sound asleep at about one or two o’clock in the morning, all the lights were on and a guy shook me with a gun in my face. (I said) Hey what’s going on? (He said) Shut up and he slapped me,” he explained.

While the suspect held him at gunpoint, three others ransacked his house, taking about 200 dollars in cash and jewelry including his 1941 class ring from Woodlake High School in Tulare County.

“They were in there for almost a half hour,” said Fresno County Sheriff Department spokesperson Chris Curtice. “So they had plenty of time to search the house, it was the middle of the night.”

At one point, Joseph said one of the suspects put a gun in his mouth and threatened to kill him. While being ordered into the bedroom closet, he said he hit him in the head with a handgun, causing him to fall to the floor.

Was there any need for that? That 92-year-old man was certainly no threat to the four home invaders.

But this is what is happening all over the nation now. Criminals appear to be getting crazier and crazier.

In Houston recently, one team of home invaders decided to storm a house at 8 AM in the morning while people all along the street were leaving their homes to go to work and to school…

It was about 8am — daylight, with people going to work and kids going to school, yet no one apparently saw this coming. The homeowner told me four men, armed with guns, broke in through her garage and forced their way inside her house.

The woman’s daughter and son-in-law were in the home with her, along with two of their daughters, ages four and six. The homeowner says the gunmen pointed guns at all of them — even the children — and demanded money over and over. They ransacked the house and the cars- and eventually got away with some cash, at least one cell phone and the homeowner’s wallet.

Who robs a house at 8 AM in the morning?

That is either incredibly bold or incredibly stupid.

In my article yesterday, I included another example of a crime which is either incredibly bold or incredibly stupid. One very enterprising carjacker actually decided to try to carjack the police chief of Detroit while he was sitting in a clearly marked police vehicle…

Just four months on the job, Detroit’s new police chief got an early taste of the city’s hardscrabble streets.

While in his patrol car at an intersection on Jefferson two weeks ago, Police Chief James Craig was nearly carjacked, police spokeswoman Kelly Miner confirmed today.

Craig said he was in a marked police car with mounted lights when a man quickly tried to approach the side of his car. Craig, who became police chief in June, retold the story Monday during a program designed to crack down on carjackings.

So what is going on here?

Are criminals becoming bolder or are they just becoming stupider?

I don’t have an answer for that question, but one thing seems certain – crime is definitely getting worse.

As I mentioned at the top of this article, some criminals are now actually stealing entire truckloads of food. A recent CBS News article explained how they are doing this…

To steal huge shipments of valuable cargo, thieves are turning to a deceptively simple tactic: They pose as truckers, load the freight onto their own tractor-trailers and drive away with it.

It’s an increasingly common form of commercial identity theft that has allowed con men to make off each year with millions of dollars in merchandise, often food and beverages. And experts say the practice is growing so rapidly that it will soon become the most common way to steal freight.

And what we are talking about is not just a few isolated incidents. This is literally happening from coast to coast and the dollar values of some of these thefts are staggering…

News reports from across the country recount just a few of the thefts: 80,000 pounds of walnuts worth $300,000 in California, $200,000 of Muenster cheese in Wisconsin, rib-eye steaks valued at $82,000 in Texas, $25,000 pounds of king crab worth $400,000 in California.

As economic conditions continue to deteriorate, I actually expect that we will start seeing armed guards on food trucks in a few years.

Desperate people do desperate things, and as food prices continue to rise I believe that food trucks will become highly prized targets.

America is rapidly changing, and not for the better.

So what are things like in your area of the country?

Are you noticing an increase in crime?

Please feel free to share your thoughts by posting a comment below…

October 24th, 2013 | |

hvaiallverden

This is somehow becomed something not only confined to the uSSa, but to even my land, where the cops, have whats is termed as “earmarked” foundings, the state is paying the Cops to do or to prioritate certain crimes and this Founding is just for that.
Like canser treatment, that have the moust loudly screaming pack of people, the louder you scream as in group, the more founding you gett, and to day, police focus on what gives them “income”, like Drugs, the insanity of the war on drugs, and this vioence and its escalating is a result of this, the police in my land dont even bother to take the tour out of its just ordinary crimes, but if you tell them about some Hasjis smell, they will be there even before you are finnished with your phonecall.

The options are mindboggeling simple, and look to Purtugal and Netherland. both are gountrys with legalised drugs, in Portugal, everything is legale, hell even PCP(angeldust) is legale, and gess what, the numbers stayed the same, the Only difference is that its becomed legale. The scaremongerings dont come thrue, and infact, for herionists, their world have becomed mutch better, its also becomed to been seen as a problem not a crime. And this moronic consensuss of “purety” is hilarious, and downright false, when alcohol is legale even in working hours, then why is a Joint a crime, beats me. Forther on as a result of this is that they have builded down their prison system, and by half of previous capasity, because the Police was freed to go for the crimes that is a porblem for us all, like violent crimes and robberys, usaly done by the same people, all the time, take em out and the comenty lives in peace.
By the way, right now, I dont even loock my car, and crimes are rear, moust of it, is conected to the use/missuse of alcohol, as always.

The issue is to start to change the policy, regading the foundings and what They should do, and legalise drugs, completely.
I gess this is the same issue in your land as mine, and there is a hughe industry, private that feeds on the same failed drug policy, and they will not lett that income go away easily, but they are not helping at all, drugs arent a problem, its the insane war on it that creates problems.
There is NO contradictions between having and doing your jobb, where ever, if you smoke cannabis, I have smoked for decades, and it never conflicted with work.

peace

Nikki Santoro

Punishment for you infidels for bombing the Middle East.

PJ London

“I was sound asleep at about one or two o’clock in the morning, all the lights were on and a guy shook me with a gun in my face. (I said) Hey what’s going on? (He said) Shut up and he slapped me,” he explained.

While the suspect held him at gunpoint, three others ransacked his house, taking about 200 dollars in cash and jewelry including his 1941 class ring from Woodlake High School in Tulare County.”

The criminals are being charged with “Impersonating Police Officers”

Sandi

What causes U.S. crime? Many different things but the roots all go back to the corruption in the system.

When the CIA (and other clandestine organizations) deal in illegal drugs and weapons in order to fund their black ops, the People pay the ultimate price.

When the wealthy land owners and politicians are involved in deceit, fraud, and murder, it’s the little guy that suffers the consequences.

When the financial system rewards the real criminals but punishes the victims, those at the bottom of the financial rung feel there’s no hope.

When the police are protecting the rights of the wealthy while trampling on the rights of the poor, they are a danger to the public and create even more hopelessness.

Until we get a handle on the evil activities of the top 10%, crime will continue to rise.

Vox

The problem is neggrows. Neggrows are violent animals that kill without cause or remorse. Neggrows are a cancer

Ed Pell

With the big thefts getting 30 trillion dollars I guess the little thieves wants a few crumbs.

Badger Badgerism

street gangs…shot on the spot no questions asked..you see mobs of young punks prowling the street
mow them down with automatic weapons…ask questions later

michael bonchello

LOL

Badger Badgerism

black young male mobs and latinos prowling around..you drive by and see them..open fire put them all down
its time the young punks understand what FORCE IS…and FORCE IS JUDGEMENT COMING FOR THEM

Eileen Kuch

Every household in the US should be well armed with rifles and/or handguns (and be well trained in their use), along with plenty of ammo for all, so that – should any invaders dare to break in – will be met with a barrage of gunfire, no questions asked. After all, anyone who breaks into another’s home deserves whatever the homeowner and/or his family may dish out; and, that would most likely be a hail of bullets.

Sooriamoorthy

That cannot include Government crime; crime of the Military; Police crime; bankers’ crime; judiciary crime.

Dave_Mowers

The ancient Romans discovered the secret ingredient that foments “crime” and wrote about extensively do you know what it was? Poverty. Yes, that’s right, yet again, we see that a so-called “issue” is caused by the heavy concentration of wealth by corruption in our political process as the root of the problem. Next time your family is victimized go to Mitt Romney’s new estate in Utah to let his family, kids and grandkids know how much you appreciated being cannon-fodder in his war against the middle classes.